{"id":1542,"date":"2026-04-06T21:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:34:59","slug":"better-than-jude-bellingham-max-dowman-edges-out-real-madrid-and-england-star-but-former-manager-advises-arsenal-wonderkid-to-prepare-to-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Better than Jude Bellingham? Max Dowman edges out Real Madrid and England star, but former manager advises Arsenal wonderkid to prepare to &#8216;suffer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Pardew made a bold statement regarding Dowman&#8217;s peak potential. Having seen the teenager dominate with the England Under-19 team and make a significant impact in Arteta&#8217;s first team, the former Newcastle United manager believes the midfielder&#8217;s current level exceeds what Bellingham had shown at this stage of his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking on <\/span><span>talkSPORT<\/span><span>Pardew said: \u201cI put him above Jude Bellingham, in the sense that he&#8217;s the best I&#8217;ve seen at the age we&#8217;re talking about. You have to say to yourself: &#8220;Well, I saw Ronaldo at the Tournoi de France (1997). He clearly stood out from his peers. Dowman clearly stood out from his peers.&#8221; \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardew made a bold statement regarding Dowman&#8217;s peak potential. Having seen the teenager dominate with the England Under-19 team and make a significant impact in Arteta&#8217;s first team, the former Newcastle United manager believes the midfielder&#8217;s current level exceeds what Bellingham had shown at this stage of his career. Speaking on talkSPORTPardew said: \u201cI put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}